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350 or bust: Saturday The Movies
Great video from a BBC documentary:
Continue readingLeDaro: Flowers, a bird and reflection.
Beautiful picture. I had it with politics. Might as well enjoy and appreciate the beauty of nature.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Ice Balls – Lake Michigan
This happened in February of this year on Lake Michigan. “Weighing in at up to 50 pounds (22 kilograms) each, the ice spheres are a winter weather phenomenon resulting from wind and wave action along the shore, according to reporting by NASA‘s Earth Science Picture of the Day. Small fragments
Continue reading350 or bust: Geniuses Among Us: There Is A Way Humans Can Live Gracefully On This Planet
What if we humans looked to nature, and considered how nature solves design problems before we build or design? For TED Talk Tuesday on 350orbust, Janine Benyus discusses biomimicry in action and reminds us of the wonder of existence on this “blue planet”. In this 2009 talk, Ms Benyus reminds
Continue reading350 or bust: New Report Connects Dots Between Political Inaction & Growing Cost Of Climate Change
This is a reposting from The Earth Story’s Facebook page: “The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down. “ –Flip Wilson A new publication issued by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in the journal “Nature” has reported that the chances
Continue reading350 or bust: A Glimpse Of Our Future (Warning: Not For The Faint Of Heart)
More footage from Chasing Ice, an astonishing clip of the largest iceberg calving ever recorded. Arctic sea ice levels this summer hit a record low; according to the U.S. National Snow & Ice Data Centre in September, more than 600,000 square kilometres more ice had melted in 2012 than was
Continue readingThings Are Good: Nature in One Cubic Foot
A portrait photographer has been travelling the world with a one cubic foot frame and cataloguing what’s in the area the cube covers. He has captured the value of biodiversity and along with science, notes that a bio-diverse farm is more productive and healthier than one that is focused on
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: Holiday Movie Monday
So, the last weekend of summer is upon us loyal readers! I hope that you are currently enjoying the last day of the last long weekend, of this wonderful summer that was. It’s not everyday the Movie Monday falls on a holiday, so I wanted to give you all a
Continue reading350 or bust: Skinny Dipping: Therapy For A World Careening Towards Climate Chaos
I’ve just returned from an invigorating five day wilderness canoe trip in Woodland Caribou Provincial Park. The Park is part of an bi-provincial bid to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is right out our back door. My family, along with 2 other families who were dedicated enough to
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: Built to NOT Last – Movie Monday
So, most of us have been there at some point, standing at an Ikea asking ourselves “do I need yet another Billy bookcase?” We know it will be of the lowest quality, and maybe even break during our home construction process. But it’s cheap…it will do the job…and we can
Continue reading350 or bust: Woodland Caribou Park 2012
My family and I, along with some good friends, are spending the week in Woodland Caribou Provincial Park. Keep your fingers crossed for good weather! Here are some pictures from our 2011 Woodland Caribou adventure:
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: What Purpose Do We Serve?
Although I have written on this topic before, I think it merits a return visit, given the environmental disasters currently engulfing the world. Were it within my power, I would legislate that all people in both elementary and high school, and in the world’s corporate boardrooms, be required to watch
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: Hot Enough For Ya!? – Climate Change – Movie Monday
So, I’ve been having a really good time doing all these ranty Movie Mondays…trying to get people riled up and make us all think a little. Today’s movie is no different. We’re going to look at a topic that has, somehow, become fairly controversial: climate change.It doesn’t take a scientist
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM - A Blog by Donna Thomson: Love and Memory at the Lake
My husband Jim and I met and married ‘up at the lake’ as we call our summer place in the Quebec Laurentians. Jim’s parents met and married at the lake too. Our grandparents were part of a group of friends, all english Montrealers, who bought property at the lake in
Continue readingCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: Meet The University Of Ottawa’s Ecojustice Clinic
From William Amos, director of the clinic: “A lot of ecojustice cases end up being David vs. Goliath battles; and that’s simply because the clients we serve in small communities and in cities across the country don’t have the funds to hire high-priced lawyers and lots of experts to provide
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Nature’s Environment Is Man
Facing an unprecedented environmental crisis a world summit like no other was called. “We have to do something, we can’t let our environment just die.” A member of the Dirt delegation said with the driest of throats. Other representatives of the world’s nature lined the large circular table. Tree’s foreign
Continue reading350 or bust: For Sale: All Of Canada
* The federal government has suggested it could replace a team of smokestack pollution specialists by turning to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, appearing to contradict its own description of the scientists and their work on Environment Canada’s website. The apparent contradiction comes as hundreds of charities and organizations across
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